The Mellon’s crew, along with the crews of San Diego-based Coast Guard Cutter Sea Otter, a Sacramento-based Coast Guard C-130 Hercules aircraft and a Customs and Border Protection Office of Air and Marine aircraft, interdicted the marijuana and more than 30 pounds of methamphetamine, and detained four suspected smugglers from a panga boat in international waters approximately 170 miles southwest of San Diego, Jan. 3.